EBC Brakes

Founded in 1978, the EBC Brakes Group is still a private company owned exclusively by the current managing director Andy Freeman.

EBC Brakes has grown to be a worldwide group with strengths in every area of the brake industry - pioneers in the true sense of the word.

Having successfully dominated the motorcycle industry with majority market shares in most western markets, EBC Brakes has developed a huge range of brakes for mountain bikes, automobiles, race and rally cars, vans, trucks, buses, commercial vehicles and even mainline locomotives.

Being also the last truly independent British friction materials manufacturer, EBC Brakes has manufacturing facilities in Northampton & Bristol, England as well as Cleveland and Ohio in the United States. EBC products are distributed throughout the world with distributors in many countries.

What EBC Says...

For over twenty years now, EBC has been the dominant force in motorcycle brakes all over the world with a list of national and world championship winners using our products, looking like the who’s who of racing. EBC Brakes have been used by the last three successive World Super Sport Champions in motorcycle road racing alone.

In Moto-X and Enduro riding, EBC has been the choice of champions for many years with top professionals such as Randy Hawkins and multiple US National Enduro champions, Thad Duvall, Jason Greer, Benny Carlson and Mike Sigetti clinching multiple USA championship titles in Enduro riding. In road racing, EBC has also been the number one preferred choice of privateer race teams for many years, EBC is a pad people will actually "buy" and as all road racers know, a free pad is one thing but the best is worth paying for if it will help you win races.

Having successfully dominated worldwide with its motorcycle brakes, EBC directed its focus onto the automotive market in the early 90's and quickly made its mark with ranges such as the new R90 approved Ultimax pad range followed by domination in the sport brake market with its Greenstuff Kevlar brakes and Red Ceramic brake pad ranges. The new hybrid range of Yellowstuff pads for track and street were quick to follow along with two ranges of drilled and slotted sport brake discs.

EBC continues to expand its business worldwide on the automotive market and is the brake pad of preference by most online retailers who provide a service for enthusiast drivers who refuse to accept cheap products that fills the shelves of high street stores.

We can proudly say Venom Motorsport is one of EBC’S largest distributers.

Buying EBC Brake Pads?

Make sure you read our short guide to the various brake pads available from EBC!

EBC Performance Brake Pads

EBC design and manufacture the largest range of performance brake pads in the world. All EBC's brake pads are market leaders in their own field. There are several different types of compound available and each compound has been designed to cope with different braking conditions. Each compound has been given its own unique colour so choosing a pad is easy.

There are 5 basic pad types:

EBC Black Stuff (Ultimax) - Standard Pads

EBC Green Stuff - Fast Road Pads

EBC Red Stuff - Fast Road/Track Pads

EBC Yellow Stuff - Full Race Pads

EBC Blue Stuff - Endurance Race Pads

Our biggest selling pad styles are the Green Stuff and Red Stuff. These two types of pad have been developed for the fast road market. We believe EBC brakes and EBC performance brake pads are the best on the market. We have used EBC brake pads and EBC turbo grooved discs on our own cars and can confirm the benefits are amazing.

EBC Brake-in-Coating

Most EBC brake pads are treated with unique bedding-in compound. This compound is a mild abrasive red coloured coating applied to the surface of the pads. It helps to reduce bed-in time significantly and lightly scrubs the brake disc after new pad installation. The big reason why EBC use this on their pads is because their discs are zinc coated. EBC’s unique brake-in coating removes the zinc in a few miles allowing optimum braking to be achieved faster.